††††††††††† We are looking forward to the
"Making History Workshop" being held at the NebraskaPrairieMuseum on March 16th. Ada Hinson is chairman of this
workshop and can answer any questions you may have. Reservations can be made by
contacting Making History, Inc. at <makinghist@uswest.net>.

††††††††††† Elizabeth Schlatz
is chairman for our upcoming Everton Workshop to be held at the museum on September
14, 2002.† Put this date on your calendar so you won't
miss this opportunity. Information for this workshop will be in our upcoming
newsletter.† Contact us if you wish any
information on this workshop or email me at rslater@atcjet.net.

††††††††††† We are always open to suggestions
for making things better for our members. We appreciate all of you who support
our club. Remember that you are always welcome to put queries in our
newsletter.

Your President, Sandra Slater

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QUERIES

1.† Would like to hear from anyone interested in
the Einsel family history. E. D. Einsel,
born 17 March 1850 married first Emma
Miller and later her sister Sarah. E. D. Einsel died
in Hastings, Nebraska in 1935. He and his
family were early pioneers of PhelpsCounty, building one of the
first banks in Holdrege, Nebraska in 1883.† His brother John H. Einsel
became a partner in the bank.† Other
family members that came to PhelpsCounty area were Lewis Einsel and Catherine DriesbachEinsel, his parents and other brothers Andrew and Moses. †Moses was the last family member, having died
in Holdrege in 1931. Steven J. Einsel, Suite 202, BurlingtonCenter, 747 Burlington Ave., Hastings, NE68901

2.
Would like to correspond with any one researching my great-grandfather, John Sjorgren Born December
7, 1835
and died January 3rd, 1882 in Harlan County,
Nebraska.† I would especially like to
find a death notice. Carol Perkins, 9434 Highwood Hill Rd., Brentwood, TN37027

MEMORIAL
GIFTS GIVEN IN THE NAME OF WALDO ROST AND MILROY BENTON -- 1870 Nebraska Census
Index book

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SODDY HOMEMAKER

HOW DID A WOMAN MAKE

A DIRT HOUSE A HOME?

By Ellen Austin

From
the mid -1850s through the beginning of the 20th century, from Kansas north through the
territories of Nebraska and Dakotas, prairie settlers
taught each other to drive teams of oxen as they pulled butterfly plows to
break sod. The sod was broken in long, straight furrows the depth of the roots
of blue stem and buffalo grasses. Using spades men first measured, with notched
handles then cut into blades, chunks of the sod which were carted by wagon or
stone-boat (a kind of sled) to a building site.†
Staking the chunks, row upon row like bricks, inserting simple frames
for a door and windows, laying sod over pole-rafters, men soon had durable
quarters while they tamed a raw land.

It
was the homesteader's wife, however, who was challenged to make the dirt house
a home even though she may have wept bitter tears at thought of the
lace-curtained frame house she had left in the East.

Many
wives must have reacted like Mrs. George Shafer when she first saw her
husband's offering of a Kansas dugout home, merely a
room scooped out of the side of a hill and walled up with sod bricks at the
open end.† According to Everett Dick's
account in the "Sod House Frontier", Mrs. Shafer likened the dwelling
to a prairie dog hole and heartily objected to living in it. But she stayed, as
did thousands of the pioneer women.

The
sod houses were forever dirty with their earthen walls crudely shaved to
semi-smoothness.† The bare, dirt floor
defied sweeping.† Even the ceiling
dripped dirt from stringy roots that dangled from sod squares spread over
wooden-pole rafters.† A heavy downpour
brought fresh trials for a housewife as the room became saturated and rivulets
ran down the roots, dripping on bedding, clothing, and family.† How did a woman cope with keeping a soddy clean? One pioneer woman
discovered that problems sometimes have a way of revealing solutions for their
problems.† As she swept rainwater from
her floor she noticed that the earth underfoot had become as hard as
cement.† She learned that if she
sprinkled the floor with water then swept it, the earth remained smooth, hard
and nearly dust free.

Eliminating
the dirt which dripped from the ceiling and making the roof watertight were
matters not easily solved.† There was no
cash to purchase boards to nail over the pole rafters.† Finishing lumber had to be brought in by
rail; that made it expensive.† But by
using the pennies and nickels she had saved for a dress, her husband bought
tarpaper.† He rebuilt the soddy's roof so that the paper lay
between pole rafters and the sod squares that served as shingles.† Inside she stretched muslin across the
rafters for a cloud like ceiling.

A
prairie wife learned to appreciate the protection of her soddy provided.†
On the open plains the wind seemed to swish and moan all the way from
Dakota to Kansas.† The summer wind fanned the sun's rays,
parching plants and drying skin.† The
winter wind chilled a person, even through a wool overcoat, and it piled snow
as high as a soddy's roof.
But the soddy's crude walls,
nearly two feet thick and chinked with mud, insulated against summer heat and
winter cold, and offered an escape from the constant winds.

But
what the house provided in protection from the elements it lacked in
charm.† Because it's walls were so thick
the sun's rays shown but little past the windowsill and the rooms seemed dark
and cave-like. Some women plastered the walls with a mixture of clay and ashes,
then white-washed them for an illusion of light.† A red geranium added a splash of color to the
soddy when the plant burst
into boom on a south windowsill.

The
wide sills provided another decorating feature to the soddy.† Plank
laid on the sills became window seats. †The children sat there to watch the undulating
sea of grasses or to trace the early morning artistry of Jack Frost on the
windowpanes.

Food
preparation also taxed a soddy
homemaker's imagination. Because her house was so different from the one in
which she had learned homemaking tasks from her mother, a soddy wife devised her own way of

doing things.†
She found that the same planked sills that served as window seats for
the children could hold her rising bread dough.†
There on a south sill the midday sun encouraged the
dough to rise and the soddy
wife transformed it into golden loaves of bread.

The
pioneer wife learned the cooking skills peculiar to soddy living. While her bread baked in the oven, a
pot of beans simmered on the back of her cook stove and, on Mondays, a boiler
of wash water was heated for scrub-boarding the laundry.† Gertrude learned to perfection jut how much
straw, cow chips, or corn cobs to stoke into the four-hole, cast-iron stove to
handle a particular job.

Feather-like
cakes of pumpkin pies demanded a steady medium heat.† As for lemon pies, just spit on your finger
and when the stove's scission' hot, it's time to pop in the pie.† Summer canning, however, required three hours
of even heat to hot water pack garden stuff.

Milk
and butter were kept cool without the benefit of refrigeration. The dairy
products were lowered in a wooden box, into the cool recesses of a well.† The children knew it was their job to fetch
the cooler box and to return it.

Eventually,
the soddies disappeared completely.† Most of them crumbled and were plowed back
into the earth.† The soddy homesteaders passed their sections and
quarter-sections on to their children who were eager to forget the house of
dirt.

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SOD HOUSES IN

PHELPS COUNTY, NEBRASKA

Several
years ago Roy Bate listed the sod houses and schoolhouses in the northern part
of Phelps
County,
Nebraska.† Below is the list of pioneers who owned them.

1.† Abraham Peterson

2.† William J. Batie -
1885, home of Roy Batie for 15 years

3.† Jim Lindquist Sr.

4.† Ed English

5.† Dan Boyer

6.† E. A. Patrick

7.† Will Brenstrom
(Jonas)

8.† A. B. Crandall

9.† Charlie Renstrom

10.___________
Denny

11.
Grant Luke

12.
Widow Carlson

13.
House of hired man

14.
Will Holen
?

15.
Oscar Matson

16.
Oscar Nordenstam

17.

18.
Erie Mattson

19.
Charlie Carlson

20.
Utah Johnson

21.
Harvey Wells

22.
Andrew† Lindberg

23.
Utah Johnson

24.
Eric Larson

25.________
Bendict

26.
Axel Johnson

27.
________ Logan

28.
________ Mooney (Andrew Schelhase)

29.___________
(Charley Nelson)

30.
___________ (Oscar Peterson)

31
John Grenemeyer

32.
AbleyMonnington

33.
John Fagerstone

32.
August Marshall

35.
O. B. Balyeat

36.
Jaspar Richardson

37.
_________ (Hazel Street)

38.
Blacksmith Peterson

39.
Father of Johnnie Holmes

40.
District 5 Schoolhouse

41
Matias Matson

42.
Andrew Johnson

43.
_________ Nelson

44.
__________ (George Thornburg)

45.
__________ Street (Albert Hanson)

46.
Hog Peterson

47.
Pete Eliason

48.
Gustav Johnson (father of Emil J. Johnson, 1878)

49.
Charley Johnson

50.
P. J. Almquist (LairdTownship)

51.
___________ Vandell (WestmarkTownship)

52.
August Mattson (WestmarkTownship)

53.
Pete Mattson (WestmarkTownship)

54.
________ Edlund (LairdTownship)

55.
Hazel Steet (home place, WilliamburgTownship)

56.
L. J. Johnson (UnionTownship)

57.
SodSchool House ( UnionTownship)

58.
C. J. Anderson (LairdTownship)

59.
Robert Lindstrom (August Windstorm, CenterTownship)

60.
Charlie Arson (WestmarkTownship)

61.
Nels Larson (WestmarkTownship)

62.
A. Anderson ( ForestMorrisonUnionTownship)

OTHER SOD HOUSES LISTED
IN THE 1903 PHELPS COUNTY, NEBRASKA ATLAS

John
Sand - SW 30 -7-19 WestmarkTownship

L.
J. Johnson N 1/2 17-6-20UnionTownship

G.
AndersonNE 1/4† 11-5-20RockfallsTownship

A.
Anderson NW 1/4 24-6-20UnionTownship

P.
J. Almquist NE 1/4 18--19 Laird Township

Charles
Johnson SE 1.4 12-6-20

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MRS. LIZZIE MOFFIT HAS
RESIDED IN BERTRAND AREA SINCE 1877;

FIRST HOME WAS A DUGOUT

(From
Bertrand Herald Diamond Jubilee Edition, 1960)

The
Frazell family resided in GosperCounty close to the
Phelps-Gosper line long before Bertrand, Nebraska started as a community

Mrs.
Lizzie Moffit, born Julia Elizabeth Frazell, has been a resident of the State of Nebraska for 87 years.† To her belongs the crown for having resided
in the Bertrand area the longest time.†
She came here in 1877 when she was four years old.

Prior
to their arrival on turkey Creek, the Leonard Frazell
family had been residents of Harvard in ClayCounty.† They owned a farm six miles north of
Harvard.† They came to the south end of
what has been since called the Fanter Place.† They built a dugout at the end of this land,
which is on the south end of Turkey Creek.

At
the time of the Frazells arrival, there were two
families on Turkey Creek.† The name of
one of them was Pence.† But Mrs. Moffit does not recall the name of the other.† The only place between Turkey Creek and Plum
Creek (Lexington) was a dugout belonging
to a family named Smith.

The
arrival of the Frazells was occasioned by a cousin's
coming to Turkey Creek and taking up a claim.†
He later decided that he didn't want it, and Mr. Frazell
took it off his hands.† The trip from ClayCounty was made in a covered
wagon drawn by horses.† Making the trip
were the mother and father, the two girls, Lizzie and her sister who was later
Mrs. Detenbeck (the mother of Oscar Detenbeck of Smithfield and Mrs. Frank McGee),
and their brother Ed.† One of the mares
used to pull the covered wagon had a colt, and they also brought two cows.† They had a crate of chickens tied to the side
of the wagon.

Their
first home was a dugout and log cabin combined.†
The back room was a dugout, and the front room was made of logs.† The mother did all her cooking in a stone fireplace
built in one end of the cabin.† She kept
sheets on the ceiling over the beds so that bugs, snakes and dirt would not get
on the beds.

This
was primitive country when the Frazells arrived
here.† There was an Indian camp a mile
south of them.† They were not unfriendly
to the newcomers, although they did make pests of themselves by their constant
begging and stealing.† After the family
had been here a year, a tribe of unfriendly Indians passed through the area.† The mother's uncle, whose last name was Speck
had come out here and built a large dugout.† His family, the Frazells
and another family holed up in the dugout waiting for the Indians to pass.† The men crawled out at night and tended their
livestock and got fresh water for the group.†
They remained in the dugout for three days.† This tribe never molested the hidden
settlers, but they did kill a man near Arapahoe and tattooed his daughter all
over her body.† Mrs. Moffit
recalls seeing and talking to her a number of years later

The
area abounded in wild game, antelope, buffalo, squirrels, and porcupines.† The family was afraid of the needle sharp
quills of the porcupines.†† When they
were shot by the men, one of the girls pulled out the quills and kept them as
sort of hobby.† She had a sewing machine
drawer full of quills at one time.† Because of the abundance of game. The family always had
plenty of game to eat.

Living
was cheap, as meat was to be had for the taking.† The family owned their own cows so they
always had butter and cream.† The only things
that were necessary for them to buy were flour, salt, sugar, and coffee.† They gathered the wild fruits, which grew on
the creek banks and dried and preserved them.

"We
grew up on cornbread and sorghum and loved it." Reminisces
Mrs. Moffit.†
The father built his own grinder and sorghum mill with which he pressed
the juice from the cane and made their own sorghum.† He had a huge pan and a burner under it, and
in this he boiled down the cane juice.†
He made the children little wooden paddles with which they scraped the
molasses pans and ate the leavings. He put the finished product in a barrels
and what the family did not eat, he sold to the settlers in the area.

It
was a hard life to which settlers came.†
The snakes were everywhere, and the large prairie rattlers were
something to be afraid of.† They were
especially terrifying to a small girl who herded cattle all day long.† Mrs. Moffit had
company on her cattle herding ventures, however as the neighbor girl, Bess
Lewis and she owned a pony in common, and they rode double, herding the cattle
of both families.

Every
one had to work.† All drinking water was
carried from the creek as was all water used on the place.† It was no small task to tote buckets of water
up the bank for use in washing and cooking. †This was excellent water as the creek was fed
by springs.† However, no one
complained.† They all liked the new
independent life to which they had come to.

The
first school was held in the homes.† The
first one which Mrs. Moffit attended had three
scholars.† The teacher was a young woman
named Miss Filkins.†
She went from one home to another.†
Mrs. Force later taught in a sod house a week at a time.† The first school was in session only three months
of the year.† As the
busy homesteaders could spare their children only that long.

The
first frame school in the area was built where the FanterChurch now stands.† The second one was built on the hill north of
the Church in the same spot where the school now stands.† It is known as the DetenbeckSchool or the McGeeSchool.

After
living in the community for quite a while the families organized a church.† Religion was the natural heritage of the Frazells as the grandfathers on both sides of the family
were ministers.† The mother's father was
a Baptist minister and the father's father was a Methodist minister. Church was
held in the schoolhouse.† The minister
was the Reverend Gillett of Lexington.

†The Frizell children
became used to the absence of their mother because she was a midwife and her
services were in great demand when the babies of the area were born.† Their family was on the whole very
healthy.† It was a good thing, as doctors
were very hard to find because of the great distances.† Diphtheria was the disease that was dreaded
and epidemics of this frequently wiped out the children of families.† The Frazells have
three children buried in the Detenbeck cemetery and
three in the White cemetery further to the south of Turkey Creek.

Leonard
Frazell provided for his family upon their first
coming to the area by cutting trees, splitting them into firewood and hauling
loads of it to Lexington where he sold it for
grocery money.† He also was a blacksmith,
and as time permitted, he set up his own anvil and forge
and did blacksmithing for all the neighbors.†
Never at any time did he farm more than 160 acres; his many other
pursuits kept him too busy.

As
she recalls life in the sod house, Mrs. Moffit says
they were plagued by almost every kind of pest: rats, mice, fleas, hegbugs, snakes, and centipedes whose bodies were as big as
your finger. "Ground puppies" or lizards were frequent visitors on
the dirt floors.

The
children had no pets so when their father brought them a puppy from Lexington, they were
overjoyed.† "We thought it was the
most wonderful dog that ever lived," comments Mrs. Moffit.

By
1880 GosperCounty was organized
sufficiently so as to need an assessor.†
This position went to Leonard Frazell.† One day in 1880 he was away on business† for the
county, and his wife was in Arapahoe purchasing some much needed
groceries.† The two girls were at home
alone.† A great prairie fire started near
Arapahoe, and the fire burned through Turkey Creek area clear to the Platte.† The two Frazell
girls proved that they had the mettle that pioneers are made of.† They feared for the livestock on the place so
they knocked down the poles, which made the hog pen and drove the hogs into the
creek where they would be safe from the fire.†
They then took the one horse and two cows and let them into the yard
where the sod had been plowed and held them until the fire had passed.† The fire came close enough to burn the sheds
on the place, and the sparks from it went into the windows of the sod house and
burned holes in the blankets on the beds.

The
parents arrived home expecting to find both children dead from the fire.† The father had lain down in a patch of
breaking and held on to his horse and thus saved his own life.† When she was complimented on her courage,
Mrs. Moffit replied "Courage? We just did what
we had to do."

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~HarlanCountyNebraska~

Orleans Progress Newspaper

Friday, June 28, 1895

Max
Biscoff, proprietor of the Orleans Meat Market, was
united in marriage to Miss Anna Mentzmeir, the
wedding occurring last Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Miller of this city, Rev. Benj. S. Haywood officiating. The happy couple have been the recipients of congratulations from many
friends during the week.

Miss
Edna Claypool, who reached the age of nine yesterday, entertained a company of
her young friends at her beautiful home in the city,† from 5 to 8 last evening.† Refreshments consisting of ice cream, cake
and candy were served during the evening.†
Miss Edna proved herself a charming little hostess and caused the evening
to pass in one continual round of pleasure for her visiting companions.† She was the recipient of many dainty little
presents from the hands of her admiring friends.

The
following resolution was unanimously adopted at the regular meeting of
Whitehead Post No. 114, G.A.R., heldJune
8 1895;

Resolved that we the members of the post render
our sincere thanks to Rev. E. S. Haywood for his valuable and patriotic address
on Memorial Sunday.† Also we are grateful
to all who took place in the ceremonies of Memorial Day, so dear to us all and
also to the officials of the OrleansCollege for the use of the
chapel.

METHODISTCHURCH -
Preaching every Sabbath at 11
a.m. and 8:00
p.m. General class meetings the first Sabbath of
every month at close of morning services.† General prayer meeting on Wednesday evening of each week at 8:00 o'clock.Children's
meeting every Saturday afternoon at 3
o'clock.Probationers' meeting the
second Tuesday evening of each month at 8:00
o'clock. The public is invited to all services. Benjamin
H. Haywood, pastor

EPWORTH
LEAGUE - Devotional meeting every Sunday evening at 7:00
o'clock,
at the M. E. Church.† Business
meeting first Tuesday evening of each month.† Cabinet meeting on call of
president.† All young people are
cordially invited. - H. R. Esterbrook,
Pres. - Gertrude Bayard, Sec.

Lundquist
worked a certain number of days each summer at the manor for the use of the
croft upon which he lived. During the winter he was obliged to work in the
forests belonging to the estate. He found this not much to his liking
especially as there was always the mirage in his mind of the New World across the Atlantic. The reward for honest
labor in Sweden was too small to be
attractive to a young man of ambition. Lundquist was ambitious. It is true that
at the iron mines at Mt.Taberg pay was better and
probably also where "myrmalm" (oxide of
iron) was dredged out of the inland lakebeds, but Lundquist did not care to be
a miner.

Two
of his children died, the famine year 1868 came and Lundquist's decision was
made. He said farewell to his wife and secured passage for America on a sailing vessel
that lay in port ready to sail. After a long and tiresome journey he landed In
New York. By rail he went to Lewiston, Illinois, where he got his first
job. At the end of the first year in America he had saved enough
money, out of his wages, so that he could send for his wife. He was now more
content, but there still glimmered a vision before his mind's eye, a home of
his own and independence. In 1878 he moved to Phelps County, Nebraska, and in 1879 when the
Lutheran Fridhem congregation was organized he and
his wife joined as charter members. He had become heartily tired of the
drinking, the swearing, and the fighting that were daily taking place in the
railroad gang, which he had just left. On the prairie was peace, quiet and an
opportunity for communion with the God of the fathers in the low and
unpretentious sod church which he had helped to build.

But
Lundquist's troubles did not cease when he came to Nebraska. A land agent beat him
out of $900.00 in money. This sum represented his entire savings in Illinois. He had signed a
contract for the purchase of a section of land and had given the $900.00 in
cash as part payment. The agent on some pretext asked to see the contract. When
he got possession of the paper he went away and kept it and Lundquist never saw
it again. As this was the only proof he had of the transaction he lost both the
land and the money.

While
this was a hard blow he did not give up. He homesteaded the NE 1/4 Section 10,
T. 5, R. 17 in PhelpsCounty and also took a timber
claim of 160 acres and proved up on both. Later he bought, 160 acres, four
miles south east of Funk, from Mrs. John Stone, 80 acres from Crust Wetterberg and 80 acres from Gust Oberg, thus eventually
acquiring a section of land instead of the one he had been swindled out of by a
dishonest land agent.

Lundquist
built substantial buildings for his children on the first three farms. After he
and his wife had moved into Funk, where he had built an attractive home, he
divided his land among his eight children, giving each, 80 acres with the
stipulation that he was to receive $125 cash per year from each 80 acres, as
long as he lived.

While
Mr..Lundquist still lived on
the old homestead a fire destroyed his barn and several other outbuildings. A
large quantity each of oats and corn, as well as a number of tools and several
sets of harness were burned in this fire. The fire originated in a straw stack,
which had been set afire for the purpose of clearing the spot on which it
stood. The stack lay there, as a small black pile of soot and ashes, supposedly
having been consumed for a long tome. One day a strong wind sprang up,
scattered the ashes and fanned to life a flame that spread to the stubble and
grass there about and which on reaching the farm buildings, destroyed them.
This fire had smoldered in the straw stack from sometime in February to April
of that year. The buildings, however, were replaced and farming operations were
resumed.

On
Sundays the family rode to church in a lumber wagon, Mr. and Mrs. Lundquist
sitting on a board laid across the top of a box, with
the children sitting in the bottom on some hay. The children enjoyed these
rides immensely, but it is not believed that the parents did, as we find that
Mr. Lundquist soon hired a carpenter to make him a spring seat for his wagon.
Soon, however, a spring wagon was bought and in this the family made longer
trips, notable, to attend "Julotta,"
(Christmas Matin) at the Bethany church in Kearney
County. Next a single buggy with crooked wheels was secured. Seeing this
vehicle in motion was almost like viewing a performance in a circus, one hardly
knew where it would go on those wobbly wheels.

The
first wheat raised by Mr. Lundquist was cut with a reaper and bound by hand on
the ground. This was afterward shocked and stacked and after it had "gone
through the sweat" it was threshed with a horse-power threshing machine.
Some of this wheat was hauled to Kearney, a distance of
twenty-seven miles, and sold for thirty-five cents per bushel, At first there was no bridge over the PlatteRiver and one had to drive on
the sand of the river bed to cross. A full load of grain was more than a team
could draw across the river, so half of the sacks were taken off and left on
the south bank while the other half was taken across and unloaded on the north
bank. Then the river was crossed again and the last half taken on. With this on
the wagon the river was again crossed and after having put on what had been
unloaded on the first trip the team drew its load into Kearney, having crossed
the river three times in order to take the load across, A trip to Kearney with
a load of wheat required two days and in cold weather was not a pleasure trip.

Mr.
Lundquist went to Bloomington, Naponee, or Orleans, when he wished to have
wheat ground into flour. At these places were water mills and wheat was ground
into flour for one seventh of the flour yielded by the wheat. The most of the
bran and shorts were given back to the customer to take home. A trip to one of
these mills also required two days. Folk bringing wheat to the mill had to wait
their turn and sometimes slept in the mill while the miller ground their grist.
After one of these trips to the mill Mr. Lundquist found, on his return, that a
prairie fire had burned everything at the home but the sod buildings. But those
were the strenuous days. Mr. and Mrs. Lundquist lived a few years of quiet and
peace in the little idyllic village of Funk. Their home was
situated one block north of the Lutheran church and their greatest joy was to be
present at the services whenever health permitted them to be present.

On
December 31, 1914, Mr. and Mrs. Lundquist
had been married fifty years and on December
31, 1924,
sixty years had passed since their wedding. Both occasions were celebrated and
at the sixtieth anniversary their son-in-law, AdolfAkerson, read a poem reviewing their journey through life.
On this occasion their living children, with husbands, or wives, their
grandchildren and great grandchildren were present.

On
January 21, a little more than a year after this celebration Mrs. Lundquist
died and was buried in the FridhemCemetery two miles east of Funk.
On November 5, 1928, nearly three years
later, Mr. Lundquist followed her and lies beside her, under the grass and the
lilies of the grave mound, awaiting the trumpet of Gabriel on the Day of
Judgment.

In
America two of Lundquist's
children have preceded him to the land beyond Jordan: Jennie, who died December
5, 1895,
in Denver; and Anna, the wife of AdolfAkerson, who died in 1908.

Until
his retirement, fourteen years before his death, Mr. Lundquist was an active
man. Active in church work and active in secular work as well. He held
positions of trust in both. He had been moderator in the school district and
trustee in the church. For a long term of years he had been deacon and at his
death he was honorary deacon of the FridhemLutheranChurch at Funk, but he asked
to be relieved from active service a few years before his death.

The
Fridhem congregation appreciated the services of Mr.
and Mrs. Lundquist, in the church, and on several occasions surprised them with
gifts. One time they presented them with a silver service and on another
occasion Mr. Lundquist was given a writing desk.

The
Lundquist family, as far as can be ascertained, may be registered as follows: